2026 Pepper Varieties
We’ve got a fantastic selection of LOTS of peppers started this year. Let’s hope the seed starting mix isn’t defective like last year! We’re using a new brand to solve that problem.
There’s a wide selection of bell peppers available in a lot of colors. For those of you who have trouble eating green peppers, I’ve got some special peppers that start out cream or lime. They don’t have that chlorophyll taste that green peppers have and that makes it harder for some to digest.
There is also a great list of pimento peppers – little peppers that look like mini pumpkins and are crunchy and sweet.
And don’t forget pickling peppers – so yummy – and we’ve got some really great ones from all around the world.
Check out the incredible amount of frying peppers that are super for grilling or just eating or cooking. There’s some great Italian heirloom ones in that category plus there are several Shishito varieties this year.We’ve also added a lot of my favorites - roasting peppers - that tend to be sweeter and have incredible flavor.
There’s also a nice selection of peppers for making your own paprika – it will have sooo much more flavor than store bought. They’re available in both sweet and with heat. Plus it’s fun to make. Try cooking or grilling with the peppers. They add a little warmth and a lot of flavor! Smoking them adds even more flavor and that make fantastic paprika.
A lot of the great roasting and paprika peppers come from Hungary and Turkey and I’ve searched hard to find good ones for you.
For those of you making salsa and hot sauce, there’s a lot of hot peppers specially chosen for that purpose. There’s even some jalapeno and habanero peppers that have NO heat so you can add more of the flavor without upping the heat in your salsas. And we’ve got just a few of some fun striped habaneros. The hot peppers are pretty much listed in order of increasing heat levels.
There’s a very large selection of Hispanic peppers ranging from Poblano and Anaheim to Jalapeno, Habanero and Serrano.
There’s some of the super hots for you pepper heads that REALLY like the heat.
For fun and color, we have some very nice decorative peppers – most are hot but a couple are not hot at all.
The peppers are listed as they will be displayed in the South Hoop House.
| Top Shelf |
| Frying/Grilling |
| Cubanelle |
| Giant Aconcagua |
| Gypsy Queens |
| Sweet Banana |
| Turkey/France/Spain |
| Antohi Romanian Turkey |
| Corbaci Turkey |
| Doux Long d'Antibes France |
| Petite Marseilles France |
| Padron Spain |
| Italy |
| Early Perfect Italian |
| Giant of Italy |
| Italian Sweet Frying |
| Lemme's |
| Sweet Begonia's |
| Neapolitan |
| Melrose |
| Calabrian Caviar |
| Sweet Nona's Gold |
| Jimmy Nardello |
| Yellow Nardello |
| Asian/Turkey |
| Shishito |
| Shishito Resiliant |
| Shishito Garashi |
| Mangangi |
| Paprika, Spicy |
| Boldog |
| Alma |
| Karlo |
| Leutschauer |
| Szgedi 179 |
| Seasoning |
| Aji de Sazonar |
| Airetama Binquinho |
| Arrugado |
| Tobago Seasoning |
| Bulgarian Red Pim - spicy |
| Dwarf Romanian - spicy |
| Ubatuba Cambuci - spicy |
| Nadapeno |
| Habanada |
| Pimento Lago Agrio |
| Zavory |
| Hispanic |
| Ancho/Poblano L |
| Ancho/Poblano |
| Mulato Isleno |
| Santa Fe (Guero) |
| Sonora Mild |
| Anaheim |
| Numex 64 |
| Giuzeppe (Hatch) |
| Pasila Bajio |
| Guajillo |
| Jalapenos |
| Pizza Pepper |
| Primavera |
| Tam |
| Pale Rider |
| Jalamundo |
| Early |
| Lytle's |
| M |
| Billy Biker |
| Serrano Tampequeno |
| Mild |
| Beaverdam Hungary |
| Prairie Spice |
| Matay Egypt |
| Sweet Bonnet |
| Medium |
| Lady Han, Korean |
| Czech Black |
| Hungarian Black |
| Bulgarian Carrot |
| Orange Embers Habanero |
| Zebrange |
| Hot |
| Sarit Gat Kosovo |
| Piment de Bresse France |
| Buena Mulata |
| Cayenne, Long Thin |
| Cayenne, Purple |
| Tabasco |
| Klinger's Florida Grove |
| Korean |
| Aji Limon |
| Sugar Rush Peach |
| Sugar Rush Stripey |
| Very Hot |
| Aji Mango |
| Early Adaptive Thai |
| Datil |
| Palmetto Punch |
| Habanero |
| Paper Lantern |
| Puma |
| Super Hot |
| Bhut Jolkia |
| Chocolate Brain Strain |
| Dark Skunk/ Darth Vader |
| Black Magma |
| Carolina Reaper |
| Decorative |
| Andes Rainbow |
| Jigsaw |
| Riot |
| Fire n Ice |
| Royal Black |
| Murasaki Purple |
| Sweet Pickle |
| Bottom Shelf |
| Paprika, Sweet |
| Gozogled |
| Hungarian Paprika |
| Pepperone di Senise |
| Pointy Kaibi |
| Sweet Szeged |
| Szentesi Sweet |
| Pickling |
| Sigaretta di Bergamo pickling/frying |
| Peppadew |
| Golden Peppadew |
| Bob's Pickling - spicy |
| Pepperoncini |
| Greek Pepperoncini - spicy |
| Roasting |
| Ajvarski Bulgaria |
| Chervana Chuska Bulgaria |
| Kapiya Bulgaria |
| Sweet Balkan Bulgaria |
| Karmen Hungary |
| Victoria Moldavia |
| Barborka Poland |
| Lastochka Russian |
| Leysa Ukraine |
| Leysa Orange Ukraine |
| Italian Red Heart Italy/Us |
| Super Shepherd Italy |
| Tolli's Sweet Italy |
| Snack |
| Apple |
| Lipstick |
| Ozark Sweet Snack |
| Giant Sweet Devil's Horn |
| Palermo Pointed |
| Trontarolo Italy |
| Patchwork variegated |
| Mini Red |
| Yummy Orange |
| Pimento |
| Amish Pimento |
| Ashe Co. |
| Cheese Red |
| Ruffled Red Pimento |
| Sheepnose |
| Liebsapfel |
| Topeppo Rosa Italy |
| Truehart |
| Doe Hill |
| Klari Baby Cheese |
| Tangerine |
| Sweets Cream to Red |
| Bacskai Feher Hungary |
| Cece Hungary |
| Diamond US |
| Zorzha Ukraine |
| Romanian Rainbow Romania |
| Zoldkalinkol Hungary |
| Odessa Market (& paprika) Ukraine |
| Soroksari Hungary |
| Green to Purple Bells Oda |
| Sirenevyi |
| Purple Beauty |
| Green to Orange Bells |
| Corona |
| Early Long Orang |
| Etuida |
| Gourmet |
| Orange Bell |
| Orange Sun |
| Green to Yellow Bells |
| Bogdan |
| Canary Bell |
| Golden CA Wonder |
| Golden Jubilee |
| Gold Summit |
| Sunbright |
| Green to Red Bells |
| Early Red 70 |
| King of the North 70 |
| Staddon's Select 70 |
| Ruby Giant/World Beater 72 |
| WI Lakes 75 |
| Keystone 75 |
| Big Red 75 |
| Stoplight 75 |
| Lantern 80 |
| Peace 80 |
| Carmagnola Rossa Italian |
| Quadrata D'Asti Rosso Italian |
| Red Reliance |
| Greenstalk center table after dwarf |
| Earlired |
| Red Wonder |
| Red Belgium |
| Little Bells lime/red |
| Toyozhini lime/red |
| Lada cream/oj/red |
| Sunny Twins yellow bell |
| Golden Pheasant oj bell |
| Feherozon cream/red paprika |
| Ferenc Tender cream/red |
| Belozerka cream to red roasting |
| Lastochka roasting red |
| Citrina y/roasting |
| Player pointed sweet |
| Yala yellow snack |
| Lil Dickens orange snack |
| Sakura muticolor small |
| Ampuis stuffing |
| Mt Etna Ital frying |
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